A serious WTF moment coming up granted this was posted in 2006, but I have just been forwarded this … what I can only describe as a serious WTF moment.

Ok so maybe not, but by the reaction from the masses crying because Gmail has had a little outage, you would think the world was ending …

google’s official reply is that an update to their backup software has been causing interruption to service: https://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/update-on-todays-gmail-outage.html

So all we can do is ride it out, and has others have said Google’s uptime is still going to be better than most other mail solutions, AND they are offering a 15day credit to anyone paying for the premium service … AND this IS a BETA …

So fair play to google, and I hope they sort the issues soon.

As for the whiners crying over downtime in their free beta server (And I mean those not paying for if but demanding compensation for loss of their free service … I mean WTF???) to paraphrase Yahtzee, The only help they need is the help that requires taking them behind the garden shed and tearfully putting both barrels through their oblivious little faces …

Just as a warning and as a poke to say WHY are you not running PHP 5.x yet.

Parsing “” and it seems some multibyte chars to html_entity_decode() in PHP 4.3.10 will cause it to crash, returning random memory contents.

In my case some contents in memory from other sites running on the box were returned.

The tego() animation comes as a suggestion from Sean, taking a similar animation to decode() and animating only one char at a time, in a console/terminal style decode.

Example

tego()

Documentation is available here: https://blog.oneiroi.co.uk/jquerysaiweb/tego

Due to the several hundred registered accounts in the last couple of days I have had a clean out.

And implemented the WP-reCaptcha plugin to help reduce the amount of spam signups and comments.

So in short I am sorry if yours was a genuine account victim of the clean out, but you can sign back up and help digitize historic books in the process.

The plugin also utilizes the Mail Hide functionality show here: HIDDEN EMAIL to help protect email addresses.

So now you can post your email address in comments safe from spam.

Cheers

Buzz

UPDATE: There is an issue with .co.uk email addresses, I have contacted the plugin author, for the time being just be aware any hidden email addresses with show as domain.co so just add .uk on the end

UPDATE2: I have replaced the regex in the plugin with my own loose matching email regex, and the issue is now solved I have posted the code on the plugin page comments for the author, with any luck an update will soon be available.